It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're writing something for themselves.

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then I try to get the scene down on paper as closely as I can. That's the one thing that readers don't see - what you have in your mind. The reader can only see what you get on the page.